If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy re… - Brian Helgeland
I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy re…
- Brian Helgeland
Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatev… - Brian Helgeland
Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatev…
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one,… - Brian Helgeland
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one,…
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you… - Brian Helgeland
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you…
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyo… - Brian Helgeland
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyo…
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it? - Brian Helgeland
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that. - Brian Helgeland
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel. - Brian Helgeland
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking fo… - Brian Helgeland
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking fo…
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